The World Food Programme revealed that it is working, in coordination with bakeries in the Gaza Strip, to implement new procedures in the operation of a number of bakeries, following the reduction of subsidized bread.
“The World Food Programme’s communications officer in Gaza, Maxime Le Legour, told Safa News Agency: ‘The Programme currently supports 26 bakeries in Gaza, ensuring the production of 130,000 loaves of bread daily.’”
“We will continue to provide the same levels of fuel and wheat flour inputs in April as we did in March,” Legor added.
But at the same time, he said that “the World Food Programme is working with bakeries to implement new measures that will boost production and support the local economy.”
Regarding this, he stated that “it is currently expected that 6 additional bakeries will be supported through a model that is limited to fuel only, with their areas being prepared to start operations.”
He added, “However, launching this experiment is conditional on the arrival of commercial supplies of wheat flour, which have not entered Gaza since the beginning of the regional war.”
He noted at the same time that the program will continue to support other bakeries by covering fuel and wheat flour until market conditions allow them to rely on regular supplies of wheat flour from commercial sources.
Converting them into commercial bakeries
For his part, a source in the Association of Bakery Owners in the sector confirmed that work is indeed underway to operate a number of bakeries in the sector, with the World Food Programme supporting them only with fuel, and the bakeries being responsible for providing bread materials, which are usually provided by the World Food Programme.
The source added to Safa News Agency that during the coming days, a number of bakeries will be operated on a commercial system, meaning that providing bread materials such as flour, yeast, and others, with only fuel support from the World Food Programme, will make the bakeries more like private bakeries, which means that the price of a bundle of bread will rise.
He also pointed out that the work depends on the availability of adequate quantities of flour through the crossings.
The sector is suffering from a bread crisis due to the small number of operating bakeries and the recent reduction in support from the World Food Programme for a number of them.
It is worth noting that the majority of bakeries in the Gaza Strip went out of business and most of them were destroyed during the war of extermination and famine perpetrated by “Israel” over two and a half years in the Strip.#Bread bakeries of the world’s food owners
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